Kornilov Zakhar Alekseevich – PhD student, National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod; ORCID: 0000-0002-6277-5077
The article focuses on the book tradition of the Seraphim-Diveyevo Convent, founded in the eighteenth century by A.S. Mel¬gunova – an example of “Old Russian literature after Ancient Rus.” A brief overview is given of the texts that constitute this tradition, the principal one being The Chronicle of the Seraphim-Diveyevo Convent, compiled by L.M. Chichagov on the basis of the convent’s archive. The writings of the Diveyevo tradition are characterized by a vivid legendary-eschatological thematics superimposed on the fundamental myth of human salvation. The unity of the narrative underlying the tradition makes it possible to regard it as a supertext, on which basis the notion of a local (super)text in Old Russian literature is substantiated. The Diveyevo text is stratified into a core (texts that serve as sources of the Diveyevo myth), a “middle circle” (texts that embody the legendary narrative within historical prose), and a periphery (texts secondary to the middle circle and lacking the myth). The Diveyevo text forms part of the Diveyevo semiosphere, in which texts of various natures coexist – folkloric, architectural, liturgical, iconographic, and others. The conclusion outlines prospects for further study of the Diveyevo text.
Old Russian literature after Ancient Rus; The Chronicle of the Seraphim-Diveyevo Convent; local text; myth; eschatology; semiosphere